[LINK] Oracle & Open Source

[Craig Sanders]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 04:56:59PM +1000, grove at zeta.org.au wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, steve jenkin wrote:
> 
> The real story that no one talks about is Open Solaris and how cool
> it is to have an Enterprise ready OS for such little cost. Who
> cares about RedHat when you can have Solaris?!  :)

the real question is "who cares about solaris when you can have linux?"

and that's a question that a LOT of solaris shops have been asking
themselves over the last 5 or 10 years.

it takes hours or days to make solaris into a decent working environment
(i.e. usable) by installing all of the GNU tools to replace the clumsy
solaris versions. by contrast, the GNU tools come standard with all
distributions of linux.



OK, solaris still has its uses...applications where you'd be crazy to
use anything but solaris. but that's a rapidly dwindling niche.

and you certainly wouldn't run it on x86 hardware. the only use for
solaris on x86 is to have a toy version of your ultra sparc Sun box to
experiment with.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>           (part time cyborg)